On Friday, April 11 2025, Faculty of Psychology conducted a taster lecture hosted by the School of Psychology University of Leeds. This session invited Dr. Madeleine Pownall as the speaker who accompanied students throughout the session. She is the Associate Professor in the School of Psychology University of Leeds with extensive areas of expertise, including the field of pedagogical research, social psychology, open science, feminist psychology, and psychological literacy. Within an approximately 60 minute session, students from batch 2023 and 2024 were guided through an advantageous learning experience discussing the social psychology of student life.

On March 18, 2024, students of the Psychology and Culture course attended an online class session inviting Pina Marsico, PhD. She serves as the Associate Professor of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno in Italy, a Visiting Professor at the PhD Programme in Psychology at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil, and an Associate Researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark. With extensive experience in research within the educational field, she is now the leading figure in the Cultural Psychology of Education. Through an approximately 100-minute learning session, precisely from 2.20 PM to 4 PM, the students were granted an opportunity to delve into the interplay among culture, the individual, and the environment.

On November 29, 2024, students of the course Psychology of Emotion went on a field study at Savasana Coffee and Event Space in Bantul. The field study was a fruitful discussion on mindfulness-based therapy techniques presented by Annisa Poedji Pratiwi, M.Psi., Psikolog from Charisma Consulting. The session, which took place from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM, was centered on how mindfulness may be incorporated into mental health and emotional control.

With a focus on how mindfulness treatment can promote emotional balance and enhance general mental health, Pratiwi’s experience led participants through important ideas and techniques. Setting the tone for a thoughtful and active learning environment, the session started with an enlightening evaluation of the participants’ emotional states. read more

This exchange opportunity is very priceless for me personally, and I wouldn’t have it any easier without the guidance from International Undergraduate Program in Faculty of Psychology. University of Groningen is one out of many official university partners to Universitas Gadjah Mada, which makes us, the exchange students here, being helpfully supervised academic-wise.

This experience is not better be explained by words, but to be experienced alone. To all of you prospective students, let’s join us to feel the challenging but very exciting opportunity to study abroad with International Undergraduate Program in Faculty of Psychology Universitas Gadjah Mada.